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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-07-08, Page 33 THE EXETEJK TIMES,ADVOCATE Thmsby, My OFFICIALS OF MAIN . ST. SEND RESOLUTIONS TO CABINET,MINISTERS Protesting against the present liquor policy during Avar time, the board o£ Main St. United Church, Exeter, on Wednesday, July 1st, passed the following resolution and forwarded it to - leading, ministers in both the Dominion and Provin­ cial Governments: Owing to the persistent rumors of the lack of British spirit and force in our army in Libya and also to the well-known fact that large amounts of space in oui' ■merchantmen are being filled with Canadian beer and strong drink, sent to the war zone of Europe and Africa, therefore we, the offi­ cial board of the Main Street Unit­ ed Church, submit the following resolution for your most serious consideration. Re it resolved that we, the of­ ficial board of Main Street United •Church, Exeter, vigorously protest against the humiliation we have to endure because our governments persist in allowing the shipment of beer and strong drink to the Avar zone in Europe, Africa and Asia, to be served to our soldiers, thus robbing them of their acute sense of action and initiative so necessary on the battlefield. We also protest against the pro-i vision made in our training camps for furnishing the same drinks to our men who are training for the stern realities that must be theirs Avhen they meet the alert, aggressive enemy. Therefore we humbly, yet ear­ nestly and sincerely plead Avith you that you will exercise youi* fine ability and authority to end, once and for all, the shipment of drink for the use of our soldiers as Avell as the furnishing and sale of drink in our Canadian camps. HOGGARTH—BRITTON A wedding was solemnized at Constance United church when Helen Bernice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Britton, became the bride of Archie Hoggarth, B.A., of Wallaceburg, son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Hoggarth, Cromarty. Rev. J, C. Britton, of the R.A.F., Port Albert, brother of the bride, performed the ceremony, assisted by R, A, E. Menzies, of Constance Church. Given in marriage by her father, the bride Avas lovely in a floor-length gown of white satin with fitted bodice and full skirt Avith long train, She wore a halo of orange blossoms Avith finger-tip ,t*l, and carried holly wood roses and bouvardia. Her only ornament was a string of pearls, the gift of the groom, The bridesmaid, Miss Florence McRorie, of Forest, Avas gowned in waterfall blue silk net over taffeta, with sAveetheart hat and shoulder veil, dnd carried Jo­ hanna Hill roses, Miss Edith Brit­ ton, sister of the bride, Avas maid of honor, in cloud pink silk net over taffeta, with sAveatheart hat of the same shade, and shoulder veil. Her flowers Avere Olivet car­ nations and fern. Douglas Britton, nepheAV of the bride, Avas a smart page boy ,in page costume, and car­ ried a Avhite satin pillow bearing the ring. Douglas Adams, of Wal­ laceburg, Avas groomsman, and the ushers Avere Victor Dinnip, of Zur­ ich, and Wilbur JeAvitt, of Con­ stance. The Avedding music was played by Miss Velma Wheeler, of Belgrave, and the soloist Avas Mrs. A. E. Menzies. Later the reception Avas held at the home of the bride’s parents. For their1 Avedding trip the couple motored to Wasaga and Lake Couchiching, the - bride tra­ veling in a turquoise blue redingote with large black hat and black ac­ cessories. Mr. and Mrs. Hoggarth will reside in Wallaceburg, where Mr. Hoggarth is on the staff of the Collegiate Institute. Mayor of Clinton is Appointed Chairman of the National War Finance Committee of Huron Co. At the request of the Minister of Finance the Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Mr. McMurray has been appointed Chairman of the National War Fin­ ance Committee of the County of Huron. This Committee has the very important task of securing the financial requirements of the Gov­ ernment in our war effort through the sale of War Savings Stamps and Certificates, as Avell as. Victory Bonds. Isles of Honeymooners and Easter Lilies Centre of Battle of Atlantic Dy Hugh Templin Hon. J. G. Gardiner Replies The folloAving reply to the above resolution has been received by Mr. Beavers from Hon. J. G. Gardiner: OttaAva, July 2, 1942 B. W. F. Beavers, Esq., Exeter, Ontario. Dear Mr. Beavers: I have yours of June 26th, and can assure you that on every oc­ casion that it has been possible I have used my influence in favor of cutting down on the consump­ tion of liquor. The chief effort I put forth in that direction is not to drink any of it. I think there is a real big job to be done, especially by our religious organizations, to convince our people that for their own good they should not consume liquor. I think you will agree Avith me that no or­ ganizations in the country are so well constituted to carry out that work as our Church bodies. Judging from my oavu experiences during the last tAventy-five years, I am not altogether sure that they have been working at the job. Yours sincerely, James G. Gardinef, Minister of Agriculture "My wife is cooking her first Christmas meal—will you come to dinner?” "Certainly, old chap, I have al­ ways shared your troubles.” Bowel Complaints of Children During ’the hot' summer and early fall months most children, ana fespecially those teething, afo subject to diarrhoea, dysentery, colie, cholera infantum and other bowel com4 plaints.Every mother should keep a hottie of Dr. Dowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry in the home as a pro­ tection against siiddeh. attacks of these troubles. Don’t experiment with new and untried remedies. Consider your child’s health. Get “Dr. Dowler’s” It has been successfully used by thousands of Canadian mothers dur­ ing the past 04 years it has been on the market. Don’t accept a substitute. Get the genuine “Dr. Dowler’ft,” Tho T. Milburn Co., Ltd* Toronto, A. J. McMurray Mr. McMurray, besides being Mayor of Clinton, has just com­ pleted 80 most successful Red Cross campaign in his oavu town. He is Chairman of Clinton’s Salvage Com­ mittee and is Treasurer and Gener­ al Manager of the Clinton Spring ShoAV. After twenty-eight years’ service Avith the International Har­ vester Company ‘ he is quite conver­ sant with the work of organization. At present he is busily engaged in organizing the various municipal­ ities of Huron for this very impor­ tant Avork. Headquarters for the Huron County Campaign have been opened in Clinton. WINCHELSEA Miss Donna Murch, .of London, is holidaying with Miss Wilma Veal. Master Donnie Burns, of London is holidaying with Master Billie Batten. . Miss Marion Pooley .spent the Aveek-end Avith Miss Irene Pooley, of Cottam. Miss Eunice Parkinson, of Blan- shard, spent the week-end . with Miss Mildred Veal. Miss Greta Fletcher, of Bryston, spent the Aveek-end Avith her par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Flet­ cher. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Skinner and family, of Elimville, visited on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs, Garnet Johns. Miss Glayds Patten returned home on Driday from the Child­ ren’s Memorial Hospital, London, where she has been receiving treatment. Mr. Lolyd Miller, of Stratford, Mrs. S. Miller, of Cromarty and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fletcher and Norma visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Ratten, It may seem strange to hop back to Bermuda, after a series of stories oh conditions in Britain in war­ time, with its bombings, deaths and rations and scarcities. Most of us think of Bermuda as a peaceful, winter resort, where lucky honey­ mooners go for a Aveek or two, and where the lilies comb from at Eas­ ter. But this present series of stories is covering the loose ends. When I Avrote about Bermuda before it Avas hurriedly, as I Avas anxious to get on Avith the story of Britain. So I turn hack noAv to devote an article to Bermuda, but not to describe its peaceful scenery and tropical floAvers, for Bermuda today is in the very heart of the Battl e of the Atlantic. It is. as near a state of "total Avar” as any country can be that is not being either shelled or bombed. And Avhen I think of Ber­ muda, it is not to recall pink coral beaches, or houses of coral lime­ stone in pastel shades, with Avhite- washed roofs, but rather to recall the good ship Excambion sloAvly and cautiously picking its Avay through the broad and intricate pat­ tern of a British mine field after dark, or to recall ships of the Ameri­ can Navy, including one of the larg­ est aircraft carriers and several cruisers anchored in the blue waters ?of the Great Sound. I think, too, of the great neAV naval base, then nearing completion, of PBY flying­ boats, the famous Catalinas,- leav­ ing every half-hour on patrol over the Atlantic, of a soldier with a fixed bayonet on his rifle, stopping me after dark as I tried to enter what looked like a peaceful garden, of the people from the censorship office and the British Navy grilling the refugees from the Occupied Countries, searching for the spies, who no doubt hid among their number. Bermuda a Tiny British Colony - Bermuda is not one island, but a group of coral islands. One of them is much larger than the others and it stretches some 12 miles in length and for half of its curving length, is not over a mile Avide. No part of it would be two miles Avide, so that nobody on Bermuda lives more than a mile from the ocean. At each end of the one big island there are many others, while the Great Sound, an open harbour, is full of smaller islands. There are no high hills on Bermuda, such as one. finds on the Azores and oth­ er volcanic islands, for Bermuda has been built up over the ages by the little coral animals, working under the Avater. This coral rock is a limestone and is quite soft. The stone is used to build all the houses and. I never saw a frame house in Bermuda. The rock is cut-out, of the quarries, or from the foundations of the houses Avith ordinary cross-cut saAvs. It hardens in the air and makes an easily Avorked and quite satisfactory building material. Even lhe roofs of the houses are- made of coral rock. They are doubly important. Not only do the roofs keep out the weather, but they catch the pre­ cious rain, Avhich supplies the drink­ ing water, for Bermuda has no wells., The normal population of Ber­ muda is less than that of Brant­ ford or Kitchener, or about 3(1,000. Of these, about 12,000 persons are Avhite, and most of the rest are pure-blooded negroes, quite black. Yet it is an independent colony, with a governor appointed by Lon­ don, and a small parliament. One of our party of Canadian editors Avas rather surprised—almost stun­ ned, in fact—to read in an official guide book that Bermuda was not a democracy. The vote is restrict­ ed to persons oAvning property worth $300 or more, and that rules out many of the natives, although there are some Negro members of the House of Assembly. Before the war, Bermuda Avas a tourists’ paradise, and an expensive one, at that. Not only Avas the fare to the islands fairly high, but liv­ ing costs at any of the thirty or more tourist hotels Avere expensive. The big attraction was the climate, the temperature averaging about 75 degrees in autumn and about 70 degrees in winter. When I was there in mid-September it AVas too hot. Returning about the end of October, the rain'was pouring down steadily all night and I didn’t both­ er to leave the ship. Part of the charm of Bermuda has been its "quaintness,” This is due to several things. The Negro population plays a part. The archi­ tecture is distinctly different, Un­ til American Army and Navy trucks invaded the islands, there were no imotor cars. Trucks don’t carry aiiy license plates yet. Traffic is by bicycle of by horses drawing old- fashioned vehicles. The one rail­ way can’t be more than 20 miles long at the outside, and it runs down the centre of the main street of Hamilton, the largest city. The motive poAVer is supplied by gasoline engines. There are, churches two or three hundred years old and a love­ ly cathedral.rt* *r That was Bermuda in peace time. Those things still remain except that the number of tourists has fallen off—but not the number of inhabi­ tants. We had the famous Belmont Manor hotel almost to ourselves, but the tAVO largest hotels, the Ber- mudiana and the Princess, were full of the censorship staff, mostly girls, Avhile the Americans had re­ cently come in in large numbers to build their air and naval bases. By this time, with the hazards of ocean travel, the,tourists have pro­ bably disappeared almost entirely. Bermuda is at Avar, An Accidental Holiday My stay in Bermuda Avas unex­ pected and entirely due to weather conditions nearly tAvo thousand miles aAvay. I was being taken to Britain as fast as trans-Atlantic planes could take me, which Avas at the rate of tAvo and one-half miles every minute. Bermuda Avas just to be a Avayside stop. The big Clipper was late leaving NeAV York and it Avas exactly ten o’clock one Tuesday night Avhen it dropped doAvn at Darrell’s Island, in the Bermuda group, some tAvo miles from Hamilton City. The great ship Avas tied up at the end of a long gang-Avay, made necessary, no doubt, by the rise and fall of the tide, This led to a little customs house, where there Avas a thorough examination of the baggage of all passengers. As there Avere 55 of these that took, a long time. For­ tunately for the six Canadians on board, our passports said we were on official business for the British and Canadian Governments. As this Avas anothei* part of the Empire, that gave us an Al priority so far as Bermuda Avas concerned. As soon as was decently possible, Ave were slipped out the side door and into a dining-room to eat a much-apprec­ iated dinner, with half a roast chick­ en apiece, canteloupe Avith lemon juice, tart and coffee. Not having had anything to eat for ten hours, Ave Avere ravenously hungry. After the meal, there Avas a space of tAvo or three hours until the Clip­ per Avould fly away into the east again, but there didn’t seem to be anything to do but Avait. I had some keen regrets that I Avasn’t go­ ing to see anything more of Ber­ muda than a few dim lights in the distance and the dusky shadoAV of a big hangar near at hand. The door of the hangar Avas open and I could see. a-5.big British sea­ plane inside, possibly -undergoing re­ pairs. Under its wing was a little American seaplane that looked as if it might have come off a carrier ship. I started up the path to take a closer look, but at the gate in the Avire fence a soldier in kilts stopped me. He had a bayonet on his gun and I felt like a foreigner in Shanghai. But if I couldn’t do anything else, I could talk to him. He turned out to be a Scot from Glasgow, heartily sick of hanging around Bermuda on this kind of duty. After an hour or so, Avord came that the Canadians might get in­ side the gate. Even then, I didn’t try to enter the hangar, but -sat on a bench and looked around the tiny plot of dried-up grass with cactus plants and rhododendrons around the edge. Along the beach were she shapes of half a dozen big fly­ ing boats, or so I supposed. -(Later I found out that they were the big Catalinas.) There Avas just one other little thing I remember, On posts about five feet high were hung jars full of coal oil, with a trap arrange­ ment for catching bugs and a notice that- any appearance of Japanese beetles must be reported at once to the authorities. It was with a feeling of sadness that I climbed back into the Clip­ per. I thought of the times in fu­ ture Avhen people AVould be talking about Bermuda, and I would have to say: "Yes, I Avas there one night, but I didn’t see it.” The next day, Wednesday, at 15 minutes before noon, the Clipper dropped doAvn again, in exactly the same place. After flying seven hundred miles or more into the east during the night, the Clipper had returned to Bermuda because of bad weather AVhich would have prevented landing at the Azores. No Longer A Secret What I sa.AV and heard in Ber­ muda that day and the next, and what I learned on the return trip, by boat, ■ Avere secrets in those days, but time has made a difference. Bart of it, at least, can be told now. On that trip, the window blinds of the Clipper were pulled doAVn as the plaiie approached Bermuda and as It left the islands. That was to keep any enemy agents from see­ ing what they shouldn’t see, and a hint to others to keep quiet about anything that might be going on. For those Who had had time to wander about the islands, it seem­ ed rather useless. But in those days, the United States hadn’t en­ tered the war, officially, at least but the Navy and its ships and plan­ es were in it, and no doubt about it, Perhaps that was the big sec- ret. Cameras, which had been taken away from the passengers as they entered the Clipper, were given back for the stay in Bermuda, but only on the understanding that .all films were to be turned over to the auth­ orities before departure, These were to be sent to Canada for de­ velopment and if any of them dis­ closed secrets, they wouldn’t be re­ turned. THE ONLY (SOOD FLY IS A DEAD FLY This has been said, at times, of other pests, but never with more truth. Flies are the scavengers of the Avorld. Right now, on many war fronts, as carriers of disease and death, they constitute a major problem facing the military medi­ cal authorities, And here, on the home front, notwithstanding^ the Avarnings oif« • health experts,' medical men and scientists, there will again be too little attention paid to the problem of guarding against the fly menace. Do you realize that every manure pile, every exposed garbage tin, every refuse heap on which flies de­ light to broAvse around, is a poten­ tial source of fatal contamination? Do you know that the bacteria on one small fly’s body may number 5,000,000, that flies are, possibly, the most prolific breeders in the insect kingdom, that their favorite I habitat is the place where most1 filth abounds and that, if the op­ portunity comes their Avay, they will carry disease-breeding germs into home and store and deposit them on food, drink and human beings? Infantile paralysis, diarrhoea, ty­ phoid are a few of the menaces that May come in the Avake of open and unscreened AvindoAvs or doors. One Avay to eliminate the fly menace and a safe, sure, cleaxi way is to place Wilson’s Fly Pads here and there in convenient places. They’ll kill all the flies and, inci­ dentally, ■ they’re most efficacious ant killers, too. So, don’t only pro­ tect youi* home by trying to keep them out. Make doubly sure by deciding to Avipe them out! • , He: "What part of the cai’ caus­ es the most accidents?” She: “The nut that holds the wheel.” The Salada Tea Company’s Championship class at the Inter­ national Plowing Match held near Peterborough last Fall brought together top rank horse plowmen from all parts of the Province. Eliper Armstrong of St.Pauls (right), Gold Medallist, and Marshall Deans, Paris (left), Silver Medallist, accompanied byW.C, Barrie of Galt, are seen ready to board a plane commencing the valu­ able trip that was offered as first and second prizes, Time being an, important factor to agriculturalists, they elected to travel by air and within nine days they visited such points as Winnipeg, Portage La Prairie, Regina, Vancouver and Lethbridge. One of the highlights of their journey was the stop off at Portage La Prairie where they participated in the Manitoba Provincial Plow­ ing Match, June 24th. At experimental stations they visited and at meetings they attended, they were afforded the opportunity of exchanging and studying new ideas, particularly labour-saving devices and other aids to greater efficiency on the farm. The trip was arranged by Mr. J. A, Carroll, Manager of the Ontario Plowmen’s Association. Plowing Matches which are conducted by local branches throughout the country, play an important part in the production of food for war, for they encourage the better plowing and cultivation of the land so essential for maximum production. Have You Tried Our Classifieds?